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I'm about halfway through "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein (1959). I've always been more of a "make love not war" person, and this book is really "might makes right". I can't say I agree with the philosophies, but I do see value in looking at other perspectives. If anything, that is the best way to learn.

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Currently reading Motherless Child by Glen Hirshberg. I've greatly enjoyed his short stories and his first novel, The Snowman's Children was a terrific thriller, so I wanted to dive into this one as soon as I could. About 1/3 through and I've found it intriguing, not least for the voice of the narration, adopting what I would call a Southern story-telling style that's a bit different from what I've read by him before. Compelling so far.

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I've started listening to Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano. This is an historical novel of the turn of the 20th century in New York, particularly in Little Italy. I'm 38% through it and the story is starting to shift into a story of the "Black Hand" or the original Mafia/Costa Nostra. I'm liking it a lot. As for S.F. right now I don't have one. I started Raymond Weil's "The Slaver Wars" and am having a lot of difficulty getting into it. I've read the previous books in the series but this one is just not grabbing me. I'll likely stop reading it and look for something else.

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Having finished Something About Eve last night, I've now moved onto the next in the "Biography of the Life of Manuel", The Certain Hour, a series of interconnected short stories. Where Eve was (predominantly) light in tone, this is much more serious and dramatic in manner (at least so far), and would not be out of place in a compendium of modern renditions of the romances of the middle ages as far as subject matter and voice are concerned..... So far, a beautiful book, exquisitely written....

Oh, and for those who may have seen my earlier comment and wondered how Eve held up... very well indeed. Still remains among my favorites of his books... and as I go through this massive structure of the "Biography", Cabell is moving up from being in my "top ten" writers to possibly bumping someone else out of my top four.....

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A Turn of Light by Julie Czernada, which is both inventive and rather twee, and That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, which is just crazy. It's got to be one of the maddest books that I've ever read. Lewis basically throws the kitchen sink at the story, which resembles 1984 with angels, necromancy, mad science, Merlin, wild animals, alien mystics and the direct intervention of God. It doesn't really work, but it's pretty entertaining!